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In the upper portion the friends of the deceased are grouped around a little temple. Scholars trace the manufacture of these vases back to very ancient days, and down to its decline, about two centuries before Christ. I do not mean that vase-painting ceased then, for its latest traces come down to 65 B.C.; but like all other ancient arts, it was then in a state of decadence.
Though vase-painting was one of the lesser arts, its importance can scarcely be overestimated, and it fully merits the devoted study and admiration which it receives from those who are learned in its history. From what we know of ancient Greek painting we may believe that this art first reached perfection in Greece.
No doubt the Achaean gods were influenced on their side by Cretan conceptions, though perhaps not so much as Ionia was. Cf. the Cretan influences in Ionian vase-painting, and e. g. A. B. Cook on 'Cretan Axe-cult outside Crete', Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religion, ii. 184.
Many of these directions are enlarged upon in other surgical works of the collection, among which we find especially full instructions for bandaging and for the diagnosis and treatment of fractures and dislocations. A GREEK CLINIC OF ABOUT 480-470 B. C. From a vase-painting.
Francis instead of Heracles; but as far as vase-painting goes, precisely the Etruscan he was before. And I therefore must briefly anticipate a statement which I shall have to enforce in following letters.
Vase-painting was another art very much practised by the ancients. So much can be said of it that it would require more space than we can give for its history even in outline.
The Dodwell vase shows you the more simple style of decoration which was used in the earlier times. Gradually the designs came to be more and more elaborate, until whole stories were as distinctly told by the pictures on vases as if they had been written out in books. The next cut, which is made from a vase-painting, will show what I mean.
The Gorgon is trying to run away the position given to her legs is used in early Greek sculpture and vase-painting to signify rapid motion but is overtaken by her pursuer.
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